Science Fiction Book Club Release

Dark Eden, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, takes place on a rogue planet outside the Milky Way. Award-winning author Chris Beckett explains how he thought through the science behind this night world

In this extract from Chris Beckett’s Dark Eden, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet some of the inhabitants of a dark planet that drifts outside the Milky Way, descendants of two astronauts marooned there over a century earlier